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10 best books like The Little Broomstick (Mary Stewart): The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole, The Ghosts, Masha, Earwig and the Witch, Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon, Linnets and Valerians, Grimbold's Other World, The Doll Shop Downstairs, Horten's Incredible Illusions: Magic, Mystery & Another Very Strange Adventure, Rescue Party

The Care and Feeding of a Pet Black Hole
AuthorMichelle Cuevas
A girl's friendship with a lonely black hole leads her to face her own sadness.

When eleven-year-old Stella Rodriguez shows up at NASA to request that her recording be included in Carl Sagan's Golden Record, something unexpected happens: A black hole follows her home, and sets out to live in...
The Ghosts
AuthorAntonia Barber
ISBN0671707140
When Lucy sat in the attic, she thought she heard the sound of voices calling...
That's when she started to believe the rumors in the village that the old house was haunted. But no ghosts appeared - until the day Lucy and her brother Jamie stood in the garden and watched two pale figures, a girl and a boy,...
Masha
AuthorMara Kay
ISBN0688416063
SET IN RUSSIA over 150 years ago, this book follows Masha through her 9 years at Smolni, an elite girls boarding school - years during which the shy, protected child grows to be a young woman about to face a challenging future. Mara Kay has evoked the sheltered world of Smolni with authenticity and has provided...
Earwig and the Witch
AuthorDiana Wynne Jones
ISBN0007416857
Most orphanages are horrible, but Earwig has a surprising amount of power over everyone at St Morwald’s Home for Children, and loves it there. The last thing she wants is to be adopted by the very strange Bella Yaga, demon-attended Mandrake, and talking black cat Thomas. Earwig wants to learn magic,...
Rapunzel and the Lost Lagoon
AuthorLeila Howland
ISBN1484787234
Rapunzel is not your typical princess. For one thing, she has returned to her kingdom after eighteen years spent trapped in a tower and she's still getting to know her parents. For another, she has to get used to royal customs, like the proper ways to sit and curtsy, when she'd really rather climb a tree...
Linnets and Valerians
AuthorElizabeth Goudge
ISBN0142300268
The four Linnet children: Nan, Robert, Timothy and Betsy are sent to live with their strict grandmother while their father travels to Egypt. Locked away in separate rooms as punishment by their ruthless grandmother, the Linnets feel at once that their new life is unbearable—and decide to make their...
Grimbold's Other World
AuthorNicholas Stuart Gray
ISBN0441303803
Some time back, wicked machinations in the world of night resulted in the prince and heir-apparent being abandoned in our world. Named Muffler, and raised by simple goat herders, Muffler seems all set to lead a perfectly normal and peaceful life- except that he has the power to talk to animals. This leads...
The Doll Shop Downstairs
AuthorYona Zeldis McDonough
Nine-year-old Anna and her sisters love to play with the dolls in their parents' doll repair shop. But when World War I begins, an embargo on German-made goods-including the parts Papa needs to repair the dolls-threatens to put the family's shop out of business. Fortunately, Anna has an idea that just...
Horten's Incredible Illusions: Magic, Mystery & Another Very Strange Adventure
AuthorLissa Evans
ISBN1402798709
Stuart Horten (ten, but looks younger) is now the owner of a magician's workshop - except that without his Great-Uncle's Last Will and Testament, he can't actually prove it.Which is a problem, since someone else wants it as well; someone who has a lot of money.

The workshop contains seven magnificent...
Rescue Party
AuthorMark A. Garland
ISBN0679891072
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AuthorDonald F. Glut
ISBN0613245687
DONALD F. GLUT has been professionally active in both the entertainment and publishing industries since 1966.

Born in Pecos, Texas, Don grew up in Chicago, IL. At age nine, already bitten by the film-making “bug,” he made Diplodocus at Large, the first of 41 amateur movies featuring dinosaurs,...
The Wind Boy
AuthorEthel Cook Eliot
ISBN0961596155
This was one of my childhood books. My mom read it to me, and we also had a cassette tape that I'd listen to over and over again, under blankets on the couch on rainy days. I wanted to curl up inside the book, imagining myself playing with Kay and Gentian, the nine- and eight-year old protagonists. I'd re-read...
Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin
AuthorMarguerite Henry
ISBN0970561806
Apparently, Quakers don't believe in art...I never knew this. Its considered evil I guess. So ironically, "Benjamin West and His Cat Grimalkin" is about a Quaker boy who loves art.

Ben does his utmost to study art, even behind his family's back. He cuts pieces of Grimalkin's fur to make paint...
The Nine Lives of Aristotle
AuthorDick King-Smith
ISBN0763622605
Dick King-Smith’s mischievous narrative and Bob Graham’s sweet, humorous watercolors capture the first eight lives of a kitten who’s ready to scamper his way into hearts everywhere.

Aristotle the kitten is so adventurous that it’s a good thing cats have nine lives. What’s even...
The Kingdom of Carbonel
AuthorBarbara Sleigh
ISBN0140304940
A long-awaited reissue of the much-loved sequel to Carbonel, King of the Cats. In this second story, published over forty years ago, Carbonel has been summoned to appear before the Great Cat but before he goes he has to find someone to look after his two royal kittens. And so he tracks down his young friends...
The Tree That Sat Down
AuthorBeverley Nichols
ISBN0006709931
One of my absolute favourite books from my childhood, which I think has had a great deal to do with my love of nature throughout my life.
I still yearn for the Shop Under the Willow Tree.

I still think of trying to gather some 'sleepo' when I can't get to sleep at night.

"Whenever a cat...
Back to School with Betsy
AuthorCarolyn Haywood
ISBN0152051015
Carolyn Haywood's stories about her irrepressible character Betsy have never been out of print, and now, thanks to dynamic new covers, the Betsy books will find their way onto the bookshelves of modern young readers--and into the hearts of a whole new generation.

Third grade begins with...
Ghost of a Chance
AuthorSusan Maupin Schmid
ISBN0553533746
Inside an enchanted castle, there’s a closet—a closet with one hundred magical dresses that only Darling Dimple can wear. Each one disguises her as somebody else.
 
It turns out that Darling needs disguises. A thief is on the loose! Someone is causing an uproar among the servants—moving...
The Dragon's Boy
AuthorJane Yolen
ISBN0060267895
"In order to gain wisdom, you must learn to read inter linea, between the lines."

Artos doesn't know who his parents are, just that kindly Sir Ector and Lady Marion took him into their castle when he was a baby. Though Sir Ector raises him as one of his sons, Artos never feels he truly belongs. The...
Sky Dance
AuthorScott Ciencin
This story is very very very interesting my favorite part of the book is when he is on the stick dancing and how the author described what he was actually doing. This book could be famous or popular a lot of people should read so i rely hope for the person who reads this message and the book i know that when they...
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